Satmar Jews Protest Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress

On a snowy Tuesday, March 3, 2015, stretching along Second Avenue from 44th to 42nd Street, throngs of men from the insular Jewish community of the Satmar Hasidic sect held signs declaring that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had delivered remarks before a joint session of Congress earlier in the day, did not speak for their community when he challenged President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran. Read more about this story: Ultra-Orthordox Jews Protest Netanyahu’s ‘Provocative Politics’ Outside Israeli Embassy. Photos by Zachary D. Roberts for the Village Voice.